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Re:Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap by Roboprog on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:15PM (#17982675)
Data bandwidth probably
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Re:Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap by e12e on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:29PM (#17983254)
Bandwidth and reliability. It's in general hard to swap out cpus while running db transactions on commodity x86 hw.
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Re:Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap by dfox on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:56PM (#17983448)
In theory you can hot-swap CPUs on x86 (with slightly hillarious fact that primary use of the Linux's CPU hotswap support is suspend to disk on laptops) but hardware that supports it and it really works is rare to non-existent.
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